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Evening Standard
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Cat Olley

What's in store for the green belt? Plus ten of the best homes for sale in some of its prettiest villages

Sadiq Khan has approved 300 new homes on green belt land in Feltham in a rare move by a London mayor, as Keir Starmer used Wednesday’s King’s Speech to announce mandatory housing targets for local councils.

A month before the election, leading think tank the Centre for London again warned politicians that homebuilding should be allowed on at least some of the capital’s green belt to ease the housing crisis.

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